Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, October' 8, 197U MCI 1'age Six THE MICHIGAN D/~dLY Thursday, Uctober 8, 197(3 i &eak the laj4t SPAGHETTIFDINNER with all the trimmings $1.25 * . . followed by: Israeli Folk Dancing with BUZZY GORDON SATURDAYHLLEL 1429 Hill 7P.M. 663-4129 UM BARBERS 8:30-5:15 P.M. Monday-Saturday UM UNION Calling phony 'plays STUDENT RATES By BILL ALTERMAN In the Stadium, 100,000 or so spectators try to guess what the next play will be. For a few of them, however, only the results remain specula- tive. THE PRIVILEGED FEW are those coaches who every Satur- day sit up in the pressbox, an- alyzing their team and the op- position. For Michigan this se- lect group usually includes de- fensive line coach Frank Ma- loney, defensive backfield coach Dick Hunter, offensive line coach Terry Hanlon and offen- sive backfield coach Chuck Sto- bart. In addition to their vantage point, these "spectators" a 1 s o have t h e advantage of three phones. The lines are admitted- ly simple, however, and the only place that can be called on them is the Michigan bench. NEVERTHELESS, the phones are rarely free, for according to Hanlon, "We talk to j us t about everybody on the team in the course of a game." And the man t hey talk to most, of course, is head coach Bo Schembechler. "C a111 n g plays," says Hanlon, "is a co- ordinated effort between the coaches on the field and those in the pressbox. We give him (Schembechler) a suggestion and most of the time it is used." The necessity of spotters is obvious. Although that may be 4c to 2c m U I I Econocopy 1217 S. Univ. 761-0087 SIGN-UP FOR FRANCE TRIP DEC. 21st-JAN. 5th $32500 ROUND TRIP if j lt ki C/u6 Meeting: Oct. 12th--7:00 Michigan Union-Rms. 3R and 3S or call DARYL-761-0838 (after 5:30) BOB-769-8069 I i No. 5 I next to where the action is, the sidelines are definitely not the place from which to see the game. Unlike the masses in the stands, the elites along the field can only see those players near- est them; the others are screen- ed out.. This combined with the slope of the field (for drainage purposes) forces coaches to get people high up. "It's a better vantage point," Hanlon declares, "It gives you an overall picture of what is happening on the field. It's dif- ficult to judge things from the sidelines." HANLON SAYS the first thing he looks for "is the oppo- sition's basic defense, to see if they are doing what ,we antici- pated they would do. Are they going to stay in (their expect- ed game plan), or are adjust- ments going to be necessary." Normally, however, the over- all situation will not alter dras- tically from what is expected. Thus the coaches work mostly on individual man-to-man sit- uations. Offensive end Billy Harris, for one, sometime early in the game will grab the player phone and summarize his situation to George Mans, the offensive end coach who frequently works from upstairs. "Usually he asks the ques- tions," says Harris. "We'll talk back and forth until we come up with something. He might ask how the defensive guy is playing you and if I think I can beat him long and I'll say' I don't know and he'll suggest a look-in and I'll say maybe and so on." ANOTHER PLAYER on the phone "once in a while" during a game is quarterback Don Moorhead. Moorhead admits, "At the beginning it's hard for me to pick up what the defense is doing on certain downs. I'll also talk over what patterns my receivers should try." "Spotters are a great a i d. They know what's going on, up th ere.. . Hanlon sees their job as fig- uring out "what we've d o n e, why it went well or why not. We try a n d anticipate situa- FOR UNIVERSITY PEOPLE WHO CARE WE NOW HAVE 4 SHOPS TO SERVE YOU " ARBORLAND * MAPLE VILLAGE "-LIBERTY OFF STATE " EAST UNIV. OFF SO. UNIV. THE DASCOLA BARBERS For the student body: -Daily-Jim Judkis ASSISTANT COACH DICK HUNTER mans the phone as head coach Bo Schembechler ponders what to do. i I-'* I Black or. Brown tions, determining what play we might want on a given situation. "Most of the time you have to have your game plans al- ready made, long before we get up there. We try and pick the right spots for certain plays. "Even in the fourth quarter we are still trying to find out how we can take advantage of them. It's our job (on defense) to come up with something to counteract them." Just before the end of the half, Hanlon heads down to the locker room where he puts the opposition's defense on t h e board. When the weary players come in, he explains to them how they are being played, what they are doing and why. BACK IN the old, old days, this was the only thing a spot- ter did. Before headphones and the like were invented spotters simply had to bide their time until the half, or else make the long walk down. Spotters were also sent out to scout the op- position in games against other opponents. According to Harry Kipke, who coached the Wolverines from 1929 to 1937, phones were first used sometime in the late 1920's after the current Mich- igan Stadium had been built. "We always had spotters in the pressbox. They would c om e down at the half and discuss how it's going and tell the play- ers to use this play or that. They had telephones, especially toward the end of my career, but they weren't as prominent. "Of course, back then we weren't allowed to send in sig- nals or substitutes anyway, the quarterback had to call all the plays. Every now and then, though, we would use illegal hand signals". BENNIE OOSTERBANN, who was an all-American under Kipke, recalls that "headphones were well established when Fritz Crisler first came here in 1938) . Today there are actually three phones: an offensive p h o n e connected to Schembechler, a headset for defensive coordin- ator Jim Young, and, the player phone which is passed from one player to the next, The phones themselves a r e the property of the athletic de- partment. Before the season starts Bell Telephone employes "activate" the line connection. Then prior to each game t h e phones are dug out of storage and hooked up. Telephones, as we have all doubtless learned by now, are exceedingly fallible. "Once in a while the phones break," relates Hanlon. "Against Washington we lost two phones and for a while we had to hand the play- er phone back and forth." SPEED is of the essence to the men upstairs. From t h e time the ball is whistled in play until the time it must be hiked is a mere 25 seconds. In that time the coaches in the p r e s s box, in quick consultation with "The Man" on the field, m us t decide on a play, send in a substitute with that play, have the signalcaller repeat it and get the team up to the line. The defense has simpler signals but conversely, they must be up to the line ;sooner in order to be ready for the offense. And so it goes for 60 playing minutes every Saturday. While the physical wheels are churn- ing on the field, up in the booth a handful of determined m e n observe the contact, analyze the situation, suggest a course of ac- tion ... and pray. 4,' $3000 VAN BOVEN SHOES, INC. A. 17 NICKELS ARCADE I 1 OCTOBER SALES 33V3 to-50% OFF Hundreds and Hundreds of Famous- Name Fall and Winter Merchandise Items. . . PANTS, SKIRTS, DRESSES, COATS, PANTSUITS, SWEATERS, SHIRTS AND TOPS. Great Selections! Great Values! 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